Actress. She played the role of Lila Quartermaine in the American daytime soap opera "General Hospital" from 1978 to 2004 in 323 episodes. Paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident a year after she started the Lila Quartermaine role, she continued her acting career using a wheelchair. For this role, she received the 1988 Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role: Daytime from "Soap Opera Digest" and in 1983 and 1984 received Favorite Actress in a Mature Role Soapy Award. Born Joan Boniface Winnifrith, she is an alum of the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art at the Royal Albert Hall in London, the same school that produced Sir Lawrence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud. She appeared in more than a dozen films in England and then came to the United States in 1939 with her husband, where she worked with John Ford in the Academy Award-winning "How Green Was My Valley," which was the beginning of a 25-year, 8-film collaboration. In 1945, she became a naturalized US citizen. She also appeared as a nun in the 1965 musical classic "The Sound of Music." She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire at the 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours for her services to drama. In 1993, she was honored with the Star on the Walk of Fame for motion pictures. She married three times and had five children. Posthumously, she received The Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Actress. She played the role of Lila Quartermaine in the American daytime soap opera "General Hospital" from 1978 to 2004 in 323 episodes. Paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident a year after she started the Lila Quartermaine role, she continued her acting career using a wheelchair. For this role, she received the 1988 Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role: Daytime from "Soap Opera Digest" and in 1983 and 1984 received Favorite Actress in a Mature Role Soapy Award. Born Joan Boniface Winnifrith, she is an alum of the Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art at the Royal Albert Hall in London, the same school that produced Sir Lawrence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud. She appeared in more than a dozen films in England and then came to the United States in 1939 with her husband, where she worked with John Ford in the Academy Award-winning "How Green Was My Valley," which was the beginning of a 25-year, 8-film collaboration. In 1945, she became a naturalized US citizen. She also appeared as a nun in the 1965 musical classic "The Sound of Music." She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire at the 1982 Queen's Birthday Honours for her services to drama. In 1993, she was honored with the Star on the Walk of Fame for motion pictures. She married three times and had five children. Posthumously, she received The Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award.
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